worst season for McGugin since 1914. McGugin retired after the 1934 season. He remains the most successful Vanderbilt head football coach in the history of the program. He selected: Bull Brown, Josh Cody, Lew Hardage, Ray Morrison, Bill Spears, and Hek Wakefield as the six best players he ever coached. Lawyer McGugin was a corporate lawyer in the offseason, and maintained an active office in Nashville. He worked in the First National Bank Building, and his law partner was John R. Austin. He was also a professor of law at Vanderbilt. Legacy McGugin died of heart failure in 1936, just two years after quitting the coaching profession and taking on the position of athletic director. At the time of his retirement, he had served longer at one institution than any other coach in America. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural 1951 class. He was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1966. He was inducted into the Iowa Sports Hall of Fame. Sportswriter Fuzzy Woodruff wrote: The plain facts of the business are that McGugin stood out in the South like Gulliver among the native sons of Lilliput... There was no foeman worthy of the McGugin steel. Sportswriter Zipp Newman wrote: I believe Dan McGugin would have gone down in history as the greatest of all coaches had he given all of his time to coaching. He was a great play-maker, but football was a sport for the beloved McGugin and law was his profession." Fred Russell wrote of McGugin: For years he ruled supreme in Dixie, and his teams won many glorious intersectional victories. More than any one man, he was responsible for the progress of southern football.... He was the first coach to successfully work the onside kick. He was among the first to bring out guards in the interference.... His name will never die. Coaching tree Several of McGugin's players became coaches. McGugin's coaching tree includes: Bob Blake, played for Vanderbilt (1903; 1905–1907), assistant for Vanderbilt (1910). Charles H. Brown, played for Vanderbilt (1910–1911), head coach for Birmingham–Southern (1919–1923). Enoch Brown, played for Vanderbilt (1911–1913), assistant for Vanderbilt (1920). Josh Cody, played for Vanderbilt (1914–1916, 1919) and assistant for Vanderbilt (1923–1927; 1931–1934), head coach for Mercer (1920–1922), Clemson (1927–1930), Florida (1936–1939), and Temple (1955). McGugin got him the Florida job. Russ Cohen, played for Vanderbilt (1913–1916),